Developing Effective Community Programs for At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project

Description

Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development: Developing Effective Community Programs for High-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project describes an approach to developing and testing effective community-based programs for at-risk children and youth. This volume shows how elements of risk and resilience, positive youth development, and organizational collaboration are used to develop a comprehensive intervention framework called the Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention (IPEI) Model. The IPEI is then applied to a community-based after-school program called the Bridge Project to illustrate how an integrated intervention framework can be used to prevent childhood and adolescent problems and improve academic achievement. Findings from an evaluation of the Denver Bridge Project intervention components are presented, and recommendations for advancing policy and practice for high-risk youth in community-based programs are described. Readers will follow the planning, development, implementation, evaluation and assessment of the Bridge Project guided by first-person perspectives from program participants who share their stories throughout the book. Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development presents an integrated theory and model for working with at-risk youth, demonstrated in a detailed case example, giving practitioners, administrators, educators, researchers and policymakers a complete package.

Developing Effective Community Programs for At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project

Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical Models and Community-Based Programs for At-Risk Children and Youth

1. A Risk and Resilience Framework for Child and Youth Programs2. A Positive Youth Development Model for Child and Youth Programs3. Interorganizational Collaboration in Child and Youth Programs

Part II: The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: Integrating Theory, Intervention, and Evaluation at the Denver Bridge Project

4. The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: Bridge Project Intervention Components5. The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: A Guide to Evaluation at the Bridge Project6. Community and Participant Outcomes from the Bridge Project7. Where Do We Go From Here? Advancing Community-Based Programs for Children and Youth

Appendix A: Study ProceduresAppendix B: Instruments

Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development

Developing Effective Community Programs for At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project